This blog's title is based upon the best question I ever overheard being asked, by a young Liverpudlian child to his mother, as in "What's..?".
The answer seems to be something of a creative and cultural nature which, in deed (primarily the making of art) and word, this blog intends to explore...

Friday, February 14, 2014

Badge of the Day #78 (Dubočica Leskovac)

Another of the
consignment recently acquired from Serbia, on this occasion representing the newly-discovered
& rather lovely name of Dubočica Leskovac.

The crest, as embodied by the badge, is, of course, a
classic of the good old Eastern European modernist ‘industrial’ type, featuring as it does the sturdily elegant
graphic representation of a cog-like factory building with a smoking chimney
stack (‘established in 1923’), exactly the sort of iconography that Peter Savile
might have appropriated or been influenced by back in the earlier days of his
designs for the mighty Factory Records. The Yugoslavian red star atop the bronzey-lettered
Cyrillic rendering of the club name (& that of Leskovac too, below), & the
striking design of the red/white diagonal division additionally contribute to
what is a most desirable & already-treasured object indeed, to be sported
with considerable style & pride.

Alas, Dubočica currently
languish at the foot of the eastern division of the third-level ‘Srpska Liga’,
but this is surely only a temporary blip & such a fine name will rise to
its rightful place amongst the higher echelons, although, of course, on-field
success is merely an impostor that has no significant effect on affection. That
being said, though - how about Dubočica Leskovac v, say, Kischpelt
Welwerwolz as a glorious-sounding not-so-distant future Champions’ League
Final? Here at TOoT, it will happen.